Hunting Lease

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Rooster_Feather

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This is really a post that could be placed in a number of places....but, the familiarity with this forum puts it here.

My question is.....What is the average that you have to pay for your hunting lease? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif

I'm sure this will get wide open, depending on exclusive rights and location.

I also know that there will be others that don't pay anything to hunt predators because it helps the landowners.
But, what I am after is for all sorts of game (deer, quail, turket, etc.)

The hunting lease and guide business just keeps getting bigger each year.

If you don't think so. Just look at Bass Pro, 3 more stores and they will have more than WalMart!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Rooster
 
We have a top quality lease for the area we are in ( San Saba County) and it is roughly 1000 per acre. However, many guys I workwith have leases in west texas around san angelo, who pay 1000 a gun, for about 3-6 sections, with roughly 10 hunters. More yotes out that way, but less deer, though a lot bigger.
 
I'm so good they pay me to come hunt /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Just kidding. The area I have is real cheap because it's in Pawnee county. I guess land over there sucks. Where is your's
 
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I'm so good they pay me to come hunt /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Just kidding. The area I have is real cheap because it's in Pawnee county. I guess land over there sucks. Where is your's



It sounds to me like a hunter problem and not a land problem!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Maybe the landowner doesn't charge enough to get quality hunters!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif


Roooooooooster
 
if you are buying into a hunting lease for a right to the land then it can gett expensive. 1000-20000 smackers. but to join a hunting club for a year around here in pa is anywhere from 300-600 everywhere I have checked. I have been to three different hunting camps and they wanted me to join so I can thin the predator pop down. but they just want me for that. I told them let me hunt coyotes and fox for free and you have a deal. they said they could not do that because there are some that just turkey hunt. last time I checked turkeys did not eat their own kind. I said no to the offers and found out they paid a hunter to come in and kill yotes for 30.00 a piece. they think it is a once and done deal. oh well I will have 50 acres to hunt here soon by buying into another piece of property with a couple buddies.
 
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I'm so good they pay me to come hunt /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Just kidding. The area I have is real cheap because it's in Pawnee county. I guess land over there sucks. Where is your's



It sounds to me like a hunter problem and not a land problem!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Maybe the landowner doesn't charge enough to get quality hunters!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif


Roooooooooster



Rowney, I hate to say it dude but I am glad I do not live where you do, because where I live that would be considered raping a hunter. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Rooster,
I would say since that if a guy refers you business to make a ton of money off the insurance you sell to new customers, he also has his personal policies with you and you keep raising his rates, he helps you with your gun purchases, does free financing for you and he's like a brother to you; it dosen't matter how bad a hunter he is you just don't charge him anything. Remember every time he hunts there then goes home he is taking the chiggers, ticks, and mice home with him. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

RUS
 
hey Russ, it gets a little sore ya know! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif But, thats the price you pay to hunt in the texas hill country, and south and west texas is worse than that. 600 acres to buy in south texas is running around 3 mill or so, so to hunt it, well you gotta pay unfortunately
 
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And now I know why I live in Kansas.



I agree! $1000 a gun? That's robbery! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif

I understand they are a business, but /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif?!

Call me cheap, but in 30+ years, I have never actually paid for the privelege of hunting someone's property. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
If I couldn't just get permission the "old-fashioned way", I traded my labor/sweat for the opportunity. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

But, I know that those times are fading away in some places. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
IT sounds funny to hear you guys complain on having to pay 1000 a gun for year round hunting. Thats a great deal down here, especially on my friends places that have B & C potential. Although there is not hardly any public land like you have out west, what does it run you guys to hunt in the east and midwest?
 
Free....if I didn't have any private land to hunt on, I would hunt on public land that the state of Oklahoma continues to buy for its hunters.
 
Free in Iowa too. At least where I hunt. My family has a lot of land plus I know most of the farmers in the area. Not a lot of yote hunters in my area so there's not much competition. Deer hunting is a different story. Most land in my area is hunted by the owners during deer season, so if you dont own any, you gotta join up with a group that'll let you hunt with them.
 
Free here in Kansas...although there are some leasing outfitters/guides scattered around too. As far as B&C bucks, Kansas has it's share of potential B&C or P&Y heads. We just haven't gotten as much coverage over the years, because until recently, non-residents couldn't hunt deer.
 
Boy i hunted some on an insurance guys land in OK and his buddy charged me $500. Man did i get robbed....














Just kiddin. I loved it. Rooster your alright you know that...
 
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We have a top quality lease for the area we are in ( San Saba County) and it is roughly 1000 per acre. However, many guys I workwith have leases in west texas around san angelo, who pay 1000 a gun, for about 3-6 sections, with roughly 10 hunters. More yotes out that way, but less deer, though a lot bigger.



I'm not sure I understand this for sure. When you say $1000 per acre, if you leased 40 acres, are you saying that would cost $40,000? If that's the cost, I'm afraid I'd have to give up hunting.
I cash rent 40 acres of good farm ground here in Illinois with 10 acres of brush and woods for less than $100 an acre per tillable acre for the farmer to farm. He also has the right to hunt it if he chooses (but doesn't because he knows I hunt it). Around here farm ground sells for about $2000 an acre. I may be compairing apples and oranges, but we have some nice deer in Illinois, and a heck of a lot cheaper to hunt.
 
Sorry I hit a few to many zeroes. Its $10 an acre. Most leases in our area that have any kind of decent hunting go from 8-12 an acre. we have 2000 acres to hunt, and its roughly 20,000 a year. Thats a little high, but its year round and has a mile of colorado river frontage so we can fish too.
 
Whew. That's a lot better. I might be able to go $10 for some good hunting. I was having a hard time understanding $1000 though. Thanks for the correction.
 
If the property was excellent and there was plenty of it, I could see $1,000 a gun for a year's lease...provided I could hunt year round. This is going to continue to be a problem. I'm a farm boy with plenty of local connections but that could change as I get older and my old time buddies fade away. Farmers and ranchers need to suppliment their incomes somehow so I don't begrudge them something for their land. In Kansas we have thousands of acres of walk-in public hunting and I've taken deer and upland game off such land for six years in a row. Coyotes too except that they get educated awfully fast on such ground. It is a great deal in my area... not so much available in the Eastern part of the state. City boys have a much greater problem... especially those guys who live in the large metropolitan areas. Reasonable driving distances and easy access are out of the question. I feel for those guys... and that's why I haven't taken promotions that would put me in that situation. I'm too old and too tied to hunting to change my lifestyle for a few thousand bucks a year.
 
Don't get me wrong. I pay taxes on my property and $10 an acres isn't out of line at all. I'd pay that myself. The $1000 an acre is what got me confused. I'd have to work a year and a half to pay to hunt 40 acres.
 
$10 an acre comes out to $1,600 for a quarter section. That seems like a lot to me...but then what does it cost to play golf every year? They'd have to pay ME to do that.
 


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